Citation: To use information from this web resource in your work, please cite this as follows:
Cranfield University 2019. The Soils Guide. Available: www.landis.org.uk. Cranfield University, UK. Last accessed 25/05/2019

Definition

Major soil group:

08 ground-water gley soils

Seasonally waterlogged soils affected by a shallow fluctuating groundwater-table. They are developed mainly within or over permeable material and have prominently mottled or greyish coloured horizons within 40 cm depth Most occupy low-lying or depressional sites.

Soil Group:

1 alluvial gley soils

With distinct topsoil, in loamy or clayey recent alluvium more than 30 cm thick.

Soil Subgroup:

1 typical alluvial gley soils

(loamy with non calcareous subsoil)

Soil Series:

medium loamy river alluvium

Brief Profile Description

In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)

Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 30

Representative Profiles: 5

Auger Bores: 504

Citation: To use information from this web resource in your work, please cite this as follows:
Cranfield University 2019. The Soils Guide. Available: www.landis.org.uk. Cranfield University, UK. Last accessed 25/05/2019